The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-29
HOW TO SEE THE ELEPHANT.
An Amusement a Good Many People
Indulge In.

Indulge In.
New York, Aug. Stunning" is
the visiting of the slums CT a great city by
the blase Or the curiosity seeker The
aristocratic practice is said to have been
started in Paris by Louis Napoleon and to
have been made popular by the Prince of
Wales in London. No matter what the
origin the pleasure has been naturalized,
and is regularly enjoyed by the wealthy
men, and frequently by the wealthy women,
of the metropolis.
A guide is secured, who usually is a de-
tective or ex-police officer His fee is from
S25 upward and the expense of the voyage
which will run from 500 into the hundreds
A pleasanter and more economical way is
to secure some friend who has Summed be-
fore and who knows where to go and what
to do. The party dress in plain clothes,
leaving behind them all iewelry. The men
should be provided with stout canes and the
women with travelling busters and light
rubber shoes. No party can explore all the
slums of New York in one visit. There are
too many, their number being among the
hundreds and the time required to see them
being at the slightest estimate PIG hours, or
nine consecutive days and nights.
A typical trip would begin at o'clock in
the afternoon at Chatham square with
short trip through Chinatown. The joss
,
policy shop, barber, tan-tan the Mongolian
faro establishment Masonic Hall and board
ing house should all be visited At the res
taurant a light lunch is in order. From
Chinatown it is but a stones throw to Little
Italy or Mulberry bend. OF interest here
are the sour beer dives, the stale bread and
food peddlers, the padrone system, the low
Neapolitan restaurants and Murderers' Alley
and Mary Blakes.
A block away is Baxter's bend in which
there is a Malay colony, a very decent and
very interesting dance house frequented by
negroes, Hindoos and Orientals, Italian
! dancing cellars, Polak barroom, an out
| side waking establishment, and any num-
| Der of horrible and decaying tenements.
From here the visitor passes through the
| famous Five Points, crosses Park Row, and
| enters the river front district. Here he
| finds the sailors boarding houses, the bucket
| shops and the half-dime cellars. These last
are where nights lodgings cost sc.
A call at the Oak street station house and
| a look at the inmates is the next STEP From
here the sightseer proceeds to Pell, Bayard
and Chrystie streets and sees the hideous
| forms of poverty and low vice there preva-
| lent A half hour may then be profitably
passed at the Oriental Theatre and the Rou-
manian Opera House and a better knowledge
of the polyglot nature of Gotham obtained
Five minutes to see sparring at some re-
| SOTU OH Lle DOWeTN, Ten 10 Dne owes
| of Hester street, fifteen to n Crosby street
| opium joint ten to Harry Hills celebrated
home of amusements, ten more to queer
| establishment in the vicinity, ten to the
Russians of Elizabeth street, and then off
to the east side. Here, around Second street,
Second and First avenues, are the head
| quarters of the Socialists, Anarchists and
| Communists. Further south is George
town, or the New Jerusalem, a city where
| Hebrew is the vehicle of daily speech; and
| further east is the awful tenement quarter
| where the tenement house cigarmakers live
and die. To the north is Sebastopol, with
its thieves, murderers and abandoned
| women.
Back again to the west side. At the Bat
terry are the cheap boarding houses of more
than forty nationalities. On Greenwich
street are the headquarters of the Turks
| and Armenians; on Thompson and its ell
virous is the Ethiopian colony, and further
north are Battle Row and Hell's Kitchen.
| Nor should the centre of Manhattan
Island be overlooked. The sporting houses
| of Sixth avenue, the gambling dens of the
side streets, the French Madames and the
numerous other places and palaces dedicat-
| ed to sin and gin, are all interesting evil
dences of the growth of American civiliza-
ton if not of it's morality, Christianity or
decency.
Long before this route has been finished
Tue bIuNtlST mas seen UEe sun rise ana SET
| several times. At its end let him him go to
his home, whether he has been away one
| half of night or more, get complete
change of wear and underwear and adjourn
to the nearest Turkish bath. From here let
what he has worn be sent to the nearest
cleaning and securing establishment. 1t
would be we'll If there were some such place
| for the soul as well AS for garments, for il
ever a man needs complete spiritual renova-
| ton il is just after such stunning as has
been briefly sketched in these lines.
WILLIAM +. s. FALES.